05-23-2009, 02:43 PM | #1 |
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HELP!! I can't find my book with calibre
I am collecting Star Trek and Battletech books, and I have organized them in their respective folders, TNG, VOY, DS9, TOS, Series, and so on.. After I install calibre, I found all of them inside their authors.
I don't want them to sorted by author. About 500 books of mine are all of different authors. So, calibre made 1 folder per 1 book. This slows my system considerably, because now I have 500 folders with 1 file each, and it is not pretty at all to browse a folder with 500 folders inside it only to open one file, not to mention I don't know the author, but I know the series. Plus the fact that one book has 2-3 authors. Some omnibook of Star Trek even got 6 authors. How do you plan put those all 6 names on a folder? I also don't want to always open the calibre to read a book because calibre is extremely slow and not stable at all. It crashed many times. I only need it to convert my book, as it is the only one that can convert lit to epub correctly. I still need stanza desktop to transfer the book to my iphone as calibre's shows empty list on stanza. It is extremely frustrating to find just 1 book to share to my phone. Can you please not mess with my folders structure? Also, I have edited some tags with calibre, but it doesn't show off. For example, I change the series from TNG-Dominion War to Dominion War. It still shows 4 at TNG-Dominion War, and 1 at Dominion War. Bug? How to refresh the catalog? And, please fix the web server. It locked my computer out everytime I stop the server. I have to end process the calibre to kill it. Thank you Last edited by prd0; 05-23-2009 at 02:57 PM. |
05-23-2009, 07:59 PM | #2 |
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Calibre has to store copies of all your ebooks in it's own directory structure. You can't change this structure. Your original ebooks are still where they are in your original directories. Calibre does data manipulation on its own copies.
If you don't want to read Calibre's copies with Calibre, after you convert or edit a book in Calibre, do a "Save to Disk" and save it where you want it in your old, original library folders. Then read your books from your original folders. Or, do a "Send to Device", and the file with the updated tags and such will appear correctly on your reading device. |
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05-25-2009, 02:58 PM | #3 | ||
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I have tried to replace authors with VOY/TNG/JADE or something resembling the series, but that would erase the author information, permanently. If it really needs to arrange the book that way, can't it make a smaller shortcut? It utilize SqlLite, can't it store its information on SQL instead of rearranging and duplicating my books? Quote:
I also don't want to edit any info on my books, I only need to convert to ePub. Sadly, the only one I've found that can read .lit and convert to epub correctly is only calibre. I don't want cataloguing, I have my way to organize them, and I don't want anything to mess with it. I only need the converter so I can read them on epub. But Calibre converter is also buggy. I couldn't batch convert everything at once. It always shows some error every 4-5 files on batch converts, or some taking too long i.e 1 hour or so, and I am on i7. 1 hour only to convert 1 book on i7 is definitely not normal, so I need to convert one by one manually. Saving to another place would make it duplicate, and I want to avoid that. Last edited by prd0; 05-25-2009 at 03:10 PM. |
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05-25-2009, 04:37 PM | #4 |
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You cannot change the way that Calibre utilises folders to store books. If you cannot live with that then you will not be able to use calibre. The whole idea is that you use Calibre to manage the books you have added to it - you do not go into the underlying folder structure (which Calibre reserves the right to change at any time anyway).
If the calibre web server locks up your machine, then it sounds as if there is something wrong with the macine or system software. Calibre runs at the user level as far as the OS is concerned and should never be able to lock up your machine. What OS are you running calibre on? If it is Windows then there is my Calibre2Web script (search this forum for that) that can help with getting books onto a iPod/iPhone. I assume that on the iPhone you are using Stanza as the ebook reader - that is the one that Calibre has been targetting. I also assume that in Stanza you have set the Calibre web server URL up to be an Online Catalog. |
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Then you can't use Calibre.
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For example, just now, a few moments ago, I am looking for the first book of progenitor. The progenitor is book two, and I want to find the book one, but I don't know the title, but all I know is it is Stargazer that I am looking for is number #1 as Progenitor is #2 of Stargazer series, a prequel to TNG series. When I typed stargazer, calibre shows only stargazer, the one at TNG series. There are 2 stargazers, the Stargazer from TNG series, and stargazer as series. Calibre did find stargazer, but only Stargazer from TNG series, not all stargazer series. At my folder, I can just open Stargazer folder, and find a file named 1 - xxxxxxx listed before 2 - Progenitor. I don't mind using calibre as search database, if it is capable of one. But it is proven as does not, and I still have to find one myself. Quote:
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My OS is Windows Vista x64 Ultimate. Yes. It is iPhone with stanza. I have set up my phone to use calibre web server URL, but it always shows nothing. I'll try to find Calibre2Web script. I'll let you know the result. Thanks for help. I've got 2 possible solutions I think. |
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As for Stanza, I just use the following format to add to Stanza iPhone Online Catalog: http://ipaddress:port/stanza e.g. http://192.168.1.100:8080/stanza Besides, I don't think it's http://ipaddr.local:8080/stanza, it's http://ipaddr:8080/stanza (should work for all OS), http://compname.local:8080/stanza (if using Mac, not sure about Linux), or http://compname:8080/stanza (if using Windows). At least, those are the OS defaults using Stanza's default port (8080). Caveats, the iPhone can't seem to recognize Windows computer names. You have to manually edit the iPhone's hosts file or assign the computer name using the router. Other points, Calibre comes with command-line utilities that you can use for LIT to EPUB conversion. You don't even need to use the GUI/database functions of Calibre (unless you plan on using the built-in online catalog). To convert LIT to EPUB, it's a simple: Code:
any2epub "filename.lit"
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(AIUI, the SqlLite is used to handle the metadata - previous versions did keep the books themselves inside the DB, but there were problems with that which meant that (AIUI) there are fewer issues if they were stored on disk using the OS's file-mangement routines to handle them.) > calibre rearrange my files Uh-uh - your files should be unchanged from when you imported them into Calibre - it's files are up to it to manage... |
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I can't understand your English well enough to understand what your problem is. Suffice it to say that if you label the book stargazer in the metadata, and then search for stargazer, you'll find the book in Calibre. You can sort by series, tags, etc. as well.
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No.. I can't label the book as stargazer. It is reserved for sub series. I put the bigger series at folder names. There is only so much I can do with tags, and I need folder structures. I have 7 books in stargazer series, and 1 stargazer book from TNG series. I have reserved the series tag for sub series, such as double helix. But I have no way of tagging TNG #51 for Double Helix #1 book with title Infection. Now, can you label the very same book as TNG #51 and Double Helix #1 with calibre? Quote:
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I have a large ebook collection, and I have *three* copies of each book in most cases, counting Calibre's.
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You could, by tagging it as "Double Helix #1", for instance, and a search for "helix" (or "tag:helix", to narrow it down) would just pick them. You'd be creating a set of 1-per-book tags, but that shouldn't be a problem.
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